§ Mr. Eggarasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to his answer of 6 February, Official 631W Report, column 579, if he will indicate the profit and loss or income and expenditure account and the balance sheet of the services and groups of services listed in his previous answer.
§ Mr. Butcher[pursuant to the reply, 21 February 1985, c. 508]: The costs and income in 1983–84 of the services listed in my answer of 6 February are as follows:
Services and groups of services the charges for which are aimed to recover full cost Cost £ Income £ Patent Office 29,931,000 29,444,000 Companies Registration Office 14,232,000 20,466,000 Insolvency Service 25,698,000 28,233,000 Pattern Examination by National Weights & Measures Laboratory 286,000 222,000 Laboratory of the Government Chemist 8,216,000 8,478,000 National Engineering Laboratory 3,828,000 3,828,000 Warren Spring Laboratory 7,314,000 7,410,000 National Physical Laboratory 2,220,000 2,482,000 Licensing under the Prevention of Fraud (Investments) Act 1958 121,500 124,100 Use of facilities at Royal Aircraft Establishment for European Space Agency Project 141,000 141,000 National Remote Sensing Centre 168,900 168,900 Dialtech (On-Line Computerised information service in science and technology 538,200 503,400 NATLAS (National Testing Laboratory Accreditation Scheme) 384,000 250,000 British Calibration Service 322,100 258,800 National Corrosion Service 43,400 42,900 Services for which charges are not set to recover full cost BOTB Export Services 23,138,800 6,612,400 Small Firms Counselling Service 3,686,500 64,900 Wireless Telegraphy Licensing 12,413,400 9,358,200